In the next couple paragraphs I will try to introduce myself,
including my passion for fly fishing and fly tying.

I’m Martin Stout from The Netherlands, born in 1979 and with my
lovely wife Jacomar I live near Rotterdam in the Netherlands. After
several years of “normal” fishing, I started fly fishing in the
years I attended the University of Delft (graduated in 2004).

Friends of mine where fishing with the fly for pike and always
caught more pike then I did, which I did not find very amusing.
OFCOURSE, Fishing is not always about catching fish but much more
about the surroundings, however once in a while catching a fish is
nice too.

In the early years, I obtained my flies from the same friends that
seduced me to fly fishing however I wanted to understand and
experiment more with flies and decided to tie my own flies. With a
little help from my friends, I taught myself to tie my own pike
flies around the year 2001. I never could have imagined than that
fly fishing and fly tying would have this much impact on my life as
it is right now.

I think I do not have a real specialty in fly tying, other than “to
go with the flow”. I just tie the fly I fancy when I am behind my
vice.